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ARMv8-A Software Development

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• Course Type:  Software

• Course Length (approx):  3+ day(s)

Summary:

This course covers the knowledge required for those developing software for platforms powered by ARMv8 processors.

Prerequisites:

• Thorough knowledge of the ARMv7-A Architecture
  
• Familiarity with ARM assembler and C programming
  
• Experience of embedded system development is an advantage
  

Audience:

This course is aimed at software developers and system architects developing for systems powered by ARMv8 processors. It is relevant for operating system development, device drivers, low-level coding and for application software. The course assumes prior knowledge of the ARMv7-A architecture and an optional introductory day is required for teams who do not have this.

Modules:

Optional Day 0:
Introduction to ARMv7-A
Required for audiences who do not have prior knowledge of the ARMv7-A Architecture, programmer's model, instruction sets, memory management and exception handling.

• Introduction to ARMv8-A
  
• AArch64 A64 ISA Overview
  
• A64 ISA Workbook
  
• AArch64 Exception Model
  
• ARMv8 Exception Model Workbook
  
• ARMv8-A Memory Management
  
• ARMv8-A Memory Model
  
• Programming for ARMv8-A
  
• Caches and Branch Prediction
  
• Barriers
  
• Synchronization
  
• Cache Coherency
  
• OS Support
  
• Booting
  
• Booting Workbook
  
• Virtualization
  
• Security
  
• Power Management
  
• AArch32 Overview (optional)
  

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